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Jazz and the Composer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Kenneth Dommett
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Wilfrid mellers has said that ‘if jazz is music it ought to be intelligible to musicians’. The truth of this is obvious; jazz is intelligible to anyone who takes the trouble to listen to it. But this should not obscure the fact that though jazz is certainly music in the sense that Mellers suggests, it is still music of a special kind. It has its own traditions, its own techniques, its own characteristics.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 91 , 1964 , pp. 11 - 20
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Copyright © 1965 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

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1 Mellers, W., Music in a New Found Land, London, 1964, Preface p.xiv.Google Scholar

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